A New Kind of Water

Eat, drink and be merry

For tomorrow we die

Eat electricity

Drink five of the seven seas

Here is a paralysed sleet

Here is a bubble bath rain

Acrid stench and festering tongue

New York, Moscow, Nairobi in flames

I don't know either, what is the answer?

We were told to expect more

And now that we've got more

We want more, we want more

We have moved from A to X

This welfare state is our progress

The size of it all carries us all along

More equals better, it's what we want

Our energy is endless it seems

It's there when we need it

We've got men on the job

We finance clinics to research

A cure for cancer, our least vague fear

A new kind of water

A new way of breathing

Always somehow a wonder cure all

Turns up when we need it

We've got men on the job

You know from experience

The creature comforts, a house that's warm

Your body would choose all this

Of course! It's innate we're selfish

But what if there's not enough to go round?

Defence is needed

We've got some odd men in odd jobs

We have moved from A to Z

This nuclear state is our demise

Fly away Peter, hide away Paul

Who can watch as the earth burns, shatters and dies?

Failsafe, foolproof, we've heard that before

Good sense is needed

Let's hope we've got men on the job